When Dr., T. Wang attends the coming national convention of the Y. ME. A. at Tientsin, he will complete a cycle in the movement in China, Word has been received in Shanghai that Dr. Wang has consented to attend, Dr. Wang was a charter member of the first city association organized in China, It was in 1895 that a few men interested in this movement, which was so rapidly growing in America, met in Tientsin to discuss the organization of similar association in China. Dr. Wang, then a young student, was one of the charter members, The following year he became the president of the Tientsin associa~ tion, This was not merely an empty title, for a building was put up for the exclusive use of the association. This was the first city association building in China.
Within 10 years the membership outgrow the building and, therefore, further plans were made for the erection of a new building which was completed in 1914. The old building is now owned by the late President Yuan Shih-kai's family, end occupied by his sw vivors. The President of the Tientsin local association is Mr. Wong Hou-chai of the China Engineering Mining Ca. Tt is in this new building that most of the convention sessions will be held.
After Dr. Wang finished his training in Tientsin he became secretary of the Shanghai local Y.M.O.A. After the Japanese-Russian. war when great numbers of Chinese students went to Japan, Mr. Wong spent some time in that country as a Y. M. C. A. secretary among the 15,000 Chinese students Tokio.
His great ambition to go to America was finally realized. He attended Yale Univesity, graduate ing with a Phi Beta Kappa key in his possession. During his stay in America he became the secretary of the Chinese Students' Christian Federation which he helped to found.
On his return to China he accepted the post of associate general secretary of the National Committes of the Y.M.C.A. Ho worked with Mr. F. Brockman from 1912-1915.
In 1915 he became the general secretary of the whole movement in China, He retained this post until the next year when the call to political lite became so strong that he resigned his position and entered the parliament.
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